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Montevideo reads in Lula's candidacy a decisive test for Mercosur's balance, where left-wing continuity in Brasília shapes the region's stance toward Washington.

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Brasilia gauges the scale of an unprecedented candidacy: at 80, Lula pursues a fourth term and 16 cumulative years in power, in a campaign built on fear of the far right and on a conservative bloc struggling to unite against him.

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Buenos Aires finds itself mediating a personal clash that has become a state-level crisis: Lula's bid for a fourth term collides with Javier Milei's anti-left tirade, marked by ambassador recalls and diplomatic summons.

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Santiago reads Lula's candidacy through the verbal clash with Milei, while gauging the cautious regional diplomacy chosen by Kast in response to neighboring populism.

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Bogota weighs Lula's candidacy at age 80 as a mirror reflecting its own debates over the longevity of Latin American leftism and the aging of its historic figures.

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Quito discerns in Lula's 80-year-old candidacy a regional counterpoint to the conservative wave that has already swept across multiple Latin American governments, with Ecuador itself having shifted rightward.

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Lima assesses the Milei-Lula crisis as symptomatic of regional polarization that could weigh on Brazil's October presidential election, while Peruvian diplomacy refrains from taking an official stance.

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Lisbon weighs Brazil's dual signal: Lula, 80, bidding for a fourth term, and surging public debt at its highest level since 2021.

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Paris reads Lula's candidacy as a dual challenge to age and to Donald Trump, a seventh electoral race framed by Brazilian sovereignty against American tariffs.

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Berlin examines both the chaotic restructuring of Brazil's right wing and the age of the outgoing president, who is running for a fourth term.

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